Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Ohio Plastics Company Fined $261K for Workplace Safety Hazards
Apr 24 2018 // Federal safety regulators have cited a Bellevue, Ohio-based plastics company for multiple safety violations after an inspection found employees exposed to fall, machine, and electrical hazards. The U.S. Department of...
OSHA Investigating Fatal Missouri TV Tower Collapse
Apr 23 2018 // Federal safety investigators are on the scene of a TV tower collapse in southwest Missouri that left one person dead. OSHA investigators are trying to determine what caused the 1,980-foot tower to collapse Thursday near...
Idaho Workers’ Comp Rates to Decrease Another 3.4% in June
Apr 20 2018 // The Idaho Department of Insurance has approved a proposal from the National Council on Compensation Insurance for another 3.4 percent decrease to workers’ compensation insurance rates. The decrease is effective for...
W.R. Berkley Names Gilbert as Executive VP, Douglas as President of BerkleyNet
Apr 20 2018 // W. R. Berkley Corp. has named James B. Gilbert as an executive vice president with oversight responsibility for certain of the company’s operating units. Brian P. Douglas is succeeding Gilbert as president of...
Illinois Senate Again Passes Workers’ Comp Reform Measure
Apr 19 2018 // The Illinois Senate has approved restrictions on insurance companies writing workers’ compensation policies. The plan that passed 34-21 on April 17 is identical to one Gov. Bruce Rauner vetoed last year. The...
North Dakota Contractor Cited for Safety Hazards, Fined Nearly $455K
Apr 19 2018 // The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited North Dakota excavation contractor Kamphuis Pipeline Company for exposing employees to trench cave-ins and other serious...
New York Workers’ Comp Board Proposes Improvements in Care for Injured Workers
Apr 18 2018 // The New York State Workers’ Compensation Board (the Board) has proposed improvements in medical care for injured workers. Its proposal includes an increase in medical reimbursement to providers who treat...
Florida CFO Releases List of Top 10 Most Wanted Insurance Fraudsters
Apr 18 2018 // Florida Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis has released a top 10 list of most wanted insurance fraud criminals and called on local communities to help with finding the individuals. According to a statement from the...
Kentucky to Revamp Workers’ Comp System
Apr 16 2018 // Kentucky will make the biggest changes to its workers’ compensation system in decades. The legislation – backed by business groups but opposed by organized labor groups – was passed by both the Kentucky...
Texas Landscaper to Pay $400K in Workers’ Comp Fraud Case
Apr 16 2018 // A Pflugerville, Texas, landscape company pleaded guilty March 21 to misrepresenting its payroll so it could pay less for workers’ compensation coverage, according to the Texas Department of Insurance. Jammers...
Workers’ Comp Written Premium in California Fell Slightly in 2017
Apr 13 2018 // Written premium in California workers’ compensation fell slightly last year, the first time that’s happened in seven years, according to a new report out. The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau...
Three Highway Workers Injured in I-80 Crash in Pennsylvania
Apr 12 2018 // Authorities say three highway workers were struck and injured on an eastern Pennsylvania interstate. Officials said the accident happened Tuesday afternoon in a construction zone where they were patching potholes in the...
Smith Named Executive Director of Oklahoma Workers’ Comp Commission
Apr 11 2018 // Hopper Smith has been hired as executive director of the Oklahoma Workers’ Compensation Commission (WCC). Smith, a retired Brigadier General, will begin serving in the post on May 1. Smith succeeds interim Executive...
California Workers’ Comp Pure Premium Could be Lowered 7th Straight Time
Apr 9 2018 // Hailing worker’s compensation reform in California as a “big hit,” the two top people at the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau explained why the WCIRB governing committee on Monday...
Texas Workers’ Comp Commissioner to Leave Post May 1
Apr 9 2018 // The Texas Department of Insurance announced that Workers’ Compensation Commissioner Ryan Brannan will leave his position effective May 1. Brannan was appointed to lead the Texas Department of Insurance’s,...
Thatcher Joins Ohio Workers’ Comp Insurer as Inclusion & Diversity Director
Apr 9 2018 // The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) has hired its first director of Inclusion & Diversity. Carolina Thatcher assumes the role following a similar stint with the Ohio Department of Job and Family...
Kentucky to Move Ahead With Overhaul of Workers’ Comp System
Apr 9 2018 // Kentucky is officially moving forward on making the biggest changes to the workers’ compensation system in decades. The legislation – backed by business groups but opposed by organized labor groups – was passed...
Florida Gov Signs Bill Giving Workers’ Comp Benefits to First Responders
Apr 9 2018 // Florida will expand workers compensation benefits so first responders can get coverage for post-traumatic stress disorder. Gov. Rick Scott on Tuesday signed the bill March 27 that allows firefighters, paramedics, and...
California Workers’ Comp Committee Votes to Lower Mid-Year Filing
Apr 5 2018 // The California Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau’s governing committee has voted to authorize the WCIRB to submit a lower mid-year pure premium rate filing to the California Department of Insurance...
Navigators to Offer Protective’s Workers’ Compensation as Part of Multiline Offerings
Apr 5 2018 // The Navigators Group, Inc. and Protective Insurance have agreed to an underwriting partnership offering Protective’s workers’ compensation coverage to Navigators’ insureds. Navigators said the partnership...
